European Parliament vetoes criteria on endocrine disruptors
Blog, Features, Articles, France[multilanguage_switcher]The European Commission’s proposed new criteria defining endocrine disruptors* in plant protection products, proposed in July, was rejected by the Euro…
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Glyphosate: EC vote postponed
Blog, Features, Articles, France[multilanguage_switcher]The European Commission vote concerning the ban or extension of the use of the controversial weedkiller glyphosate – due this week – has been postponed, it is said, to give Germany time to form a coalition government. No f…
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Glyphosate and Alternative Farming
Blog, Features, Articles, France, Normandy Notebook[multilanguage_switcher]France’s Glyphosate and Alternative Farming Lire l’article »
Know more about your Endocrine Disruptors: lists now available online
Blog, Features, Articles, France[multilanguage_switcher]France has made available online two long lists of “suspected” yet authorised endocrin…
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France’s Estates General for Food: Help the Farmers
Blog, Features, Articles, France[multilanguage_switcher]Last week, 28 August, France’s minister for Agriculture Stéphane Travert officially opened the first workshops of France’s new Estates General for Food/ France’s Estates General for Food: Help the Farmers Lire l’article »
The Harvest Ball
PoésieThere was a little girl who wore oak leaves in her hair
red berries round her milk-white neck, and a crazy stare.
Her dress was made of lace which hung like mist around her feet
and round her wrists an amethyst as purple as her blood.
Her mot…
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Neonicoinoids: sales up in France, despite ban.
Blog, Features, Articles, France[multilanguage_switcher]Why, when we need bees so much, do we still spray our crops with bee-killing pesticides? France alone has seen a 4% increase in sal…
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Bisphenol A recognized unanimously as an endocrine disruptor by ECHA
Blog, Features, Articles, France[multilanguage_switcher]The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) announced on 16 June that Bisphenol A is a “substance of very high concern bec…
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Flax
Normandy Notebook, PoésieAlone against the storm she fights while others
bow and wait, hide and bend for cover,
dare…
President Macron's ecology transition plans: mixed messages
Blog, Features, Articles, France[multilanguage_switcher]Mixed messages from President Macron: what exactly is his plan for France’s ecological
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